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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — It’s the heart of Baltimore’s tourism industry, but the Inner Harbor turned into a nightmare for a visiting family of 10 earlier this month.

Out of nowhere, they were swarmed and beaten by a large number of teenagers.

While the family that was attacked does not want to be identified, they do want their story to be heard. They told their story to WJZ off-camera.

“They swarmed us,” said Stacey. “They hit my husband in the head. They knocked him out… and then it was just complete bedlam.”

It happened on the day of the Baltimore Marathon, Oct. 21. The event brought a big crowd to the harbor that night. The 10 family members, from grandparents to grandchildren, were walking by the H&M store when they were overwhelmed.

“And they punched my nephew in the face and knocked him to the floor,” Stacey said. “My sister went to protect her son, and they were kicking her. I was knelling with my husband screaming ‘Somebody help us, why is nobody helping us?'”

Baltimore City police spokesman T.J. Smith says groups of teens have been a problem in the city.

“It’s always groups of them,” he said. “Someone in that group starts it, and that’s what we saw in this situation.”

In March, a group followed a man downtown, hurling insults, which quickly escalated into a physical assault, and a rapid scattering by the attackers. The same technique used last week when two bicyclists were robbed and beaten by a group.

“The disrespect from some of these juveniles is just absolutely unbelievable and stunning,” Smith said. “And it should be to society.”

“Maybe if there’d been police on foot, those people would never have been congregating there, looking for a fight, you know looking to hit somebody,” said another victim, Sal.

“Well we did have cops all over the place, but again they probably got there relatively quickly, but we can’t have cops on every corner in every single block of the city,” according to Smith.

While police are reviewing surveillance video of the attack, the victims can’t stop replaying it in their minds.

“After this, I can’t sleep at night, seeing what happened over and over again in my head,” Stacey said. “Seeing my family attacked.”

Two members of the family suffered concussions. Others came away with scrapes and bruises, and a vow never return to the Inner Harbor.

As yet, police have no suspects in the attack. Because the group appears to have been made up of juveniles, if they are found they cannot be identified.

So if the cops cant be everywhere at every minute then why are law abiding citizens not allowed to protect themselves with a firearm? When you go into Baltimore you are pretty much on your own. My advise…..STAY OUT!!

“Teens” has become a code-word for feral humans of a certain racial group, usually born to welfare mammas to maximize their welfare check and then set loose in the streets. Requiring fixed birth control for welfare recipients would resolve most of these problems as the current crop ages out or ends up in prison.

They’re not on welfare anymore- it’s social security. They receive it, and their kids get checks for bogus or real “learning disability” or “speech impediment”. The pro-active policing ended in Baltimore and this is what results. These cities are test cities- YOURS is next. More 3rd world illiterates with 7th century cultures will also be imported. This is the UN’s dream! For all of us to be continually terrorized, impoverished, and disgusted.

“As yet, police have no suspects in the attack. Because the group appears to have been made up of juveniles, if they are found they cannot be identified.”

Exactly … and part of the problem. It’s time we stop coddling creeps like these, and make their faces part of a billboard – and make their families responsible, as well, for having created, and contributed toward, their depraved get.

My son was attacked in the same fashion as a Mount Royal Middle school student. A group of 10-15 High school kids attacked him; knocked him unconscious, gave him a concussion, skull fracture, broken nose and left him for dead on Park ave three blocks from his school. Although he puts on a brave face he has dropped clues that he is afraid to travel alone and fears he will be attacked again; thus the snide and cheeky remarks are insulting, “such as at least the statues are gone”. I’m a patriot and a history lover; the Statues were illegally removed and that matter will be resolved. My son’s attackers are still unknown although we know what school they came from. I support and fight for the 2nd amendment with the exclusion of automatic weapons but what good would it do for him as a minor? By the way, had the juveniles been caught they wouldn’t be sufficiently prosecuted unless charged as adults. The kids are out of control cause the have no legal consequences, no family structure, nor any personal hopes for the future. These young people are in our midst and we need infrastructure and stronger families not smart ass comments.

I hope your son is receiving all the psychological and spiritual help he needs. He almost certainly is suffering PTSD from such a brutal attack. I hope too that you are getting the support you need, what happened is awful for the whole family.

You’re right. The voters and media need to take this seriously. They should report on this every night until the perpetrators are in jail. No money for road repairs or teacher pay raises until after these problems are resolved. No pay raises for police until the problem is resolved. Worse still, instead of solving these problems, we fret about the Freddy Gray case…. What’s more important, attempted murder or “offensive language?”

I believe the “smart ass” commenter, was only pointing out the foolishness and absurdity of the undue obsession over statues which were harming no one, when there are more pressing issues
– like the actual violation of civil rights in these unprovoked beatings (and knock-out “game” crimes).

Sorry for the pain your nephew and family are enduring. You aren’t going to like this either, but the solution is that these type of attacks can only be baiting and hunting these mobs. A mob attack is a deadly attack. Therefore deadly force is justified in repelling it. Concealed carry shooters need to dress down to a non-threatening profile, maybe a street scavenger or other character that tends to loiter. Then find and shadow the mobs, pretending to look thru trash or whatever, and wait for one to attack an innocent. Then start the video on your phone and state your suspicion of an impending or ongoing attack, say you have to stop the attack on tape, then close in and fire double taps into one or two of the attackers. Do not shoot retreaters. Warn off any onlookers who might attack you, and clarify who the victim group is. Keep the group together and command everyone else to stay back. Call 911 with a second phone if you have one so you can keep the camera rolling. Ask the victims to start videotaping before you call. With camera rolling ask the victims if they are ok. No matter what they say, never admit any doubt in your mind that the victims were under deadly attack due to more than one hitting a single victim. It is the superior numbers that make the attack potentially deadly, do not deviate from this belief. Keep the 911 dispatcher on the phone and obey his/her commands about how to not spook the arriving cops. Likely you will be told to re-holster your weapon and keep both hands visible and wave to cops as they arrive. They will likely make you lay down and they will disarm and arrest you. You will be exonerated if you don’t shoot one in the back. You risk a manslaughter charge even if you do everything right, so being a hero has risks. If you are a sentinel by nature, a protector, and believe mob violence needs to be deterred by citizens as well as cops, consider this mob hunting tactic, and we will salute you as a hero if you can carry it off successfully. We need heroes to combat the rise of government-bred fatherless dangerous ferals.

Yes, go and see the sights…prepared for action. A clandestine patrol. But hey, you just happen to be walking in one of these danger zones for legal purposes, and you are legally armed for self defense or defense of innocent others. (Depart states where this type of thing is illegal, as they are de facto uninhabitable.) And when something like this mob attack goes down, and you just happen to be nearby, and you just happen to be legally armed and morally-legally empowered to defend the innocent: lower the boom. The “knockout game” is no game, and the police CANNOT stop it. So we have to stop it.

If you, or an innocent other person, have a right to be where you are, and you face the reasonable threat of death or grievous bodily harm at the hands of violent attackers, you have the right to defend yourself and innocent others with deadly force. You shoot to stop the threat. If they run or surrender, don’t shoot. If they continue the attack or maneuver on you, keep shooting.

2 on 1, 3 on 1, 10 on 1: these situations are legally (and morally) considered to place the outnumbered, innocent person in what a reasonable person would consider “danger of death or grievous bodily harm.” Same thing when a young, strong attacker assaults an older, weaker person; a practiced fighter or martial arts-trained person goes against someone not similarly prepared; a man assaults a woman; attacker(s) have knocked somebody down or out by surprise; physically fit attacker assaults a guy on crutches; etc.

Onviously, check your local laws, etc. But the fact remains: bands of violent attackers, aka “teens,” roam our cities ready to pounce on the innocent and pound the he!! out of them, rob them, take selfies with those knocked down and out, steal what they want, humiliate however and whomever they want, and go on their merry way. And yes, only a blind man could miss the extremely strong racial correlation that is part of this new reality: it is black people wreaking casual “vengeance” on anybody and everybody else. (In fairness, one must note that they do it to other black people, too, but not for the same reasons.)

These attackers REVEL in the misery and helplessness of their victims, gloat that whites and Asians fear blacks, etc. So, don’t hide, and don’t cower. Go to places you want to go, using some sort of judgment of course, and arm and prepare accordingly. Then, stand your ground. Otherwise, this situation merely worsens. I defy anybody to claim otherwise, as the evidence is overwhelming for those who will look at it. Of course the MSM hides the racial angle completely; they highlight that only when whites victimize blacks. Yes, that was the problem in 1957. The opposite is the problem in 2017. Doubt me? Google “Colin Flaherty.”

I know a lot of wonderful black people, and interact with them accordingly. I also know a lot who are liable to do things such as we’re discussing here, and I guard against them accordingly. Add in radical Islamic terrorists, workplace violence cases, mass killers, and spurned lovers, and there are PLENTY of reasons to take the approach I advocate.

Sheep graze peacefully and bother nobody. That does not, however, protect them from coyotes, wolves, cougars, and wildcats. For that, we need goats, sheepdogs, and shepherds. Time to step up, men of America. Women of America, time to protect you and yours.

Were your son’s attackers the KKK? Maybe neo-Nazis? Because the media is telling us hate crimes are on the rise.

How’s that for snark? Look, I’m glad you call yourself a patriot, and frankly borderline amazed that, as a black woman, you disapprove of the removal of those statues. (But as you know, they’ve just begun on that front).

That said, NORMAL PEOPLE HAVE HAD IT. And you sound like one of us.

Best wishes for your son. Put him in MMA. Know who your friends are. Get out of that area if you can. Fight for your right to be armed.

Why are the news anchors/ reporters reporting on this like it’s a joke? This is a serious situation. Everyone seems to be shrugging their shoulders like this behavior is acceptable and expected. We are shocked and complaining about “privileged” kids choice in Halloween costumes, what about these kids who feel they are entitled to harm people??

Concealed weapon permits will bring an end to the fools that attack in packs. Instead Balto is a place where the young thugs have the free run of the streets. Listening to WBAL radio and there is a Jewish man living in Pikesville talking about the carjackings and attacks on Jewish people going to synagogue. Carjacking is a BIG problem in the Baltimore area but we don’t hear much about it.

The Inner Harbor can be a very nice area for tourists, dining and museums. The thugs are ruining it. The mayor who is usually outspoken on political issues should condemn this attack as tourism is essential to Baltimore’s economy.

When spotting gr0ids on the street, keep your eyes on them and maintain a safe distance.
If the gr0ids are approaching you, keep your hand on your gun and evade the area if possible.
If the gr0ids are within 25 feet of you, SHOOT TO KILL!

If the family would have defended themselves and hurt any of those youthful teens, I bet the family would brought up on criminal charges for injuring the poor youth and committing a racially motivated crime. Then the family would have been summoned to appear in civil court and ordered to pay “restitution” to the poor little boy.

And that’s why I won’t set foot in these leftist “Utopias.” They don’t reciprocate on concealed weapon permits and at the same time acknowledge the police can’t protect you. What could possibly go wrong with that?

Why would ANYONE put up with this nonsense? The ridiculous mayor & city administrators sure have a handle on the situation…..”lets remove those 100 year old statues that honor old Southern war heros…..yeah,…that’ll take care of everything!” I wouldn’t go to Baltimore-Inner Harbor- for ANYTHING!
And until the city leader & laws (concealed carry) are changed, I suggest you do the same. Why put yourself & family in the way of “life changing” potential harm?

You can bet if this were gangs of whites doing hate crimes on black there would be hundreds of feds down there within hours to round them up.
Democrats are trying to destroy the U.S with hate and are doing a good job of it.

Face it,we are at the start of a race war .Roaming gangs of young blacks,male and female,are attacking whites brutally .
If a white uses a gun owned legally to protect oneself from these gangs there would be an outrage leading to violent looting and destruction.
These black thugs a a product of our failed welfare system and the rhetoric from the so called black leaders

It’s too often that we hear of black teen flash mobs hurting people and causing destruction. Not too long ago, there was a rash of random punching of strangers. Something has got to be done to steer black youth in the right direction or this kind of thing will only perpetuate stereotypes and cement racial beliefs.

Baltimore……anyone, anyone, anyone….care to comment on which race the large number of teenagers that were the attackers????? If there were ever a reason to carry a concealed weapon; this is one of the reasons!

So when foreigners come here to see our country, and they are told “you probably shouldn’t go to Baltimore,” and they ask the reason why, what are they told? There are dangerous teens? Is every no-go zone in this country run by teens?

If the family that was attacked was black and the group of attacking teens was white, this article would have mentioned race and it would be national news plastered all over the cable networks for weeks.

But racial identifiers are not used in this article. Hmmm, I wonder why?

Sounds like Baltimore should take a page out of the Ft. Worth, TX police playbook. Pairs of policemen on bicycles patrol the Sundance Square area. But, of course, 80% of those walking around Sundance Square are probably carrying, too. Support nationwide reciprocity on concealed carry laws.

And if anyone here thinks Baltimore is going to do one thing about this you got another thing coming. Its only going to get worse because they don’t have anyone to stop it. Everyone all over Maryland knows not to go to Baltimore. Go to Annapolis harbor instead. They don’t allow the thugs to rule in Annapolis.

Well. someone will tire of it and shoot a half dozen of them and it will stop for a while. Then, after the break, it will pick back up. Society has been going in the wrong direction for 35 years. I don’t see any chance of improvement. We get lapses from violence, but it seems to always return.

why would any decent normal clean cut person in America ever visit Baltimore and walk around that jungle?? America is over run with these ghetto trash violent animals who have no future but crime against whites.

Baltimore is such an armpit of a city. I try to avoid it at all cost. But the kicker is, its almost impossible for your average, law abiding person to own a handgun for self-defense an the defense of his family in Baltimore, so these criminals are free to attack whomever they want without repercussion. Maybe one day the people of Maryland will become tired of being the victims at the hands of thugs and vote in politicians who care about the citizens right over that of the criminal elements rights. But I doubt it.

We have to get serious about the “black” problem in this country. I suggest white people and Asian people, completely remove themselves from these cities. Totally boycott them financially, Avoid dealing with this element of society at all costs until they decide to police themselves. They are bringing up a HUGE new generation of career criminals, the prison population will double in ten years.

did anyone catch when the black city official talked about the “disrespect” shown by the “teenagers” (cough). disrespect is when you talk back to your teacher. this was brutal, animalistic pack violence. “people” like that are not fit to live in civilization.

inner harbor has always been one of my favorite places. i love the aquarium and so many other parts of that area, but if this is the situation, i’ll never feel right about taking my family to visit.

Well, If they can’t have a cop on every corner and I’m not allowed to protect myself, then, my family and I won’t be going to the Baltimore Inner Harbor. Hopefully, Baltimore’s tourism industry will be able to survive through the generous support of the cities thriving hoodlum community.

Not much of this in Az. Like zero. No permit required for concealed or open carry. You see old grampas carrying guns in Walmart while their wife shops. And she’s got a Smith Air weight in her cc purse.

When will people realize the need to carry the great equalizer?? When Thugs attack you, U have EVERY RIGHT to defend Your Life! Liberals want to disarm Us. But as we see with this family, it puts everyone at the mercy of these street Thugs! Wise Up People & Arm yourselves!

Baltimore… knew what was happening from the one word. Time to have the LGBT community buy up the properties and rehab the bay area. Anyone else, and the elected official and public opinion would prevent the purge needed to get the community back from these “teens”.

I wouldn’t be kneeling by my husband waiting for someone else. My entire family carries,,,,, and that would be that. What they did was commit an act of terrorism, attempting great bodily harm and we know what we do to terrorist.

The police / government will not / can not protect you. As a man, you must be ready at all time to protect your family. Know your surroundings, be ware, and be ready to shoot / kill as many as you can.

Elephant in the room which is NEVER brought up, EVERY single case is black on white attacks. EVERY ONE around the country. Never brought up. Dozens in past couple months if you scan news sites. How many more not reported. When are white players going to start taking a knee to bring this to light. Thank you Barak.

“disrespect from some of these juveniles “, uh um I think beating and violently punching people is a bit more than disrespect? I guess that is the heart of the problem. Some people have different views on what constitutes assault and violence. I would consider physically punching or kicking someone, starting fires and burning private property, smashing cars, etc as violence, not as disrespect. Personally I would avoid all the major cities as its open “hunting” season on normal average Americans (of any ethnicity, race or religion) by anarchist anti American groups right now, much of it being spurred on by the NFL players anti police/anti America kneeling which legitimizes the violent acts by these groups of teenagers. They see their idols “disrespecting” America so they feel justified in doing so as well.

Hey leftists, please tell us where blacks are attacked by whites, anywhere in the country, where a black person or family cannot walk in a public place for fear of being attacked. Oh wait, it’s not the white neighborhoods that people get violently attacked in. Must be black privilege.

The “youths” are black. We all know it but no one seems to be willing to admit it. They are cowards by nature which is why they travel in feral packs and attack white families with children and elderly members. If some of these “teens” or “youths” received hot lead at 900 ft per second, the attacks would end, but the leadership of Baltimore, charm city, is happy to give them space to destroy instead.

And Baltimore thinks they have a shot at Amazon re-locating headquarters to the south side. Bal does not have a shot in hell, and frankly the city doesn’t deserve it. 50 years of rot and cancer and statist polices that have led infrastructure collapse, abandoned blocks of row homes that resemble bombed out Dresden, school systems that graduate students without even baseline reading and math skills and demoralize from the time they set foot in Gov educational system which is the equivalent of hell, purveyors of a victimhood mindset that destroys the black man’s spirit and leaves him immobilized, endless fiscal insanity and insolvency, and normalized crime, assaults, and murder, year after year. Leadership failure.

Just a random family that was attacked, eh? By chance was the random family a “fair skinned” family. I don’t have to ask about the attackers, but correct me if I’m wrong and the gang of thugs was a group of Asians taking a break from their studies.

Lincoln was so right; there’s no way the majority of blacks will ever be able to function in civilization with other races. Just look at Afreaka. Those who continue to go to Blacktimore deserve what they get, just like those who stick their hand in a blender running on high speed…

“large number of teenagers.”…”groups of teens”…”the attackers”…”beaten by a group”…”these juveniles”…”the group appears to have been made up of juveniles”

Another classic example of the PC media propagandists attempting to condition their readers to ignore the obvious.

Political Correctness is killing us. All cultures are not the same.

“The most insidious power the media has, is the power to ignore.” (Chris Plante, WMAL)

But it isn’t like we didn’t know:

“Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have.” -Richard Salant, former president of CBS News

“We are going to impose our agenda on the coverage, by dealing with issues and subjects that we choose to deal with.” – Richard Cohen, Senior Producer, CBS Political News

Black Racism’, is the giant elephant in the middle of the room, that everyone knows is there, but pretend not to see. The downplaying, the endless Affirmative Excuses and the silence from the media and society as a whole, only feeds it, empowers it, and allows it to grow. And in this Liberal run PC society, blacks are pretty much allowed to be as blatantly and in-your-face racist as they want to be.

As one police officer commented: “Funny how that works isn’t it? Being a cop I have been seeing this “hate crime” game going on for years. I would take reports of blatant racism by blacks against whites, in which whites were put into the hospital, terrorized at night in their homes, shot, stabbed, you name it, and the newspaper doesn’t even report it. Or if they do they never mention the races of the people involved.”

“The most insidious power the media has, is the power to ignore.” (Chris Plante, WMAL)

Why any white would ever enter Baltimore, let alone walk around is beyond me. You are not wanted there.You are not welcome there. Why spend one single dime of your hard earned money to support anything in Baltimore? Boycott it entirely.

This is the result of 50 years of constant Liberal brainwashing on a targeted demographics to believe that they are perpetual victims of the “evil white man”. By always making a point of hyping and exploiting the far rarer examples of white on black racial violence, while ignoring the far more common incidents of violent black racism and discrimination against whites and Asians, the
Liberal MSM tries endlessly to convince their viewers that the least racist demographics, are the most racist; and the most racist demographics, aren’t racist at all!

‘Black LIES Matter’- Approximately 85% of all interracial violence, including assault, murder and rape between blacks and whites, is black on white.

A Single Parent Sub-Culture raised on anti white animosity and envy. Triggered by their racist hatred and a righteous indignation instilled and encouraged by a Leftist Hollywood and a Public School program of Victimist Propaganda.

Empowered by Liberals and their Entitlement Mentality. Protected by the National News Media, Political Correctness and a corrupt racist DOJ under Eric ‘My People’ Holder and Barack ‘If I Had a Son’ Obama.

Forgiven by an endless list of Affirmative Excuses and Lowered Expectations. Sanitized and Glorified beyond recognition by a fawning SJW media on TV, on the Movie screen, and in Commercials, as innocent, righteous paragons of humanity.

Liberals and their media having dumbed down their education, inflated their tribalistic race based pride and egos, and enraged their senses by instilling a constant sense of victim-hood with movies like ‘Django Unchained’, ‘The Butler’, ‘Twelve Years a Slave’, the new ‘Birth Of A Nation’, and the remake of ‘Roots’. Creating a youth culture of stupid, self-important, angry, uncontrollable and violent racist spoiled brats.

Thank God the media didn’t tell their readers that the “teenagers” were ghetto nnegros, “entertaining” themselves in a gun free zone controlled for decades by the socialist elites running the Democratic Party.

And thanks to the bigots in the NFL, a white policeman “interfering” with that “entertainment” would be considered a racists and would be subject to prosecution.

It’s always teens when they are black. If they were white teens beating on a black family then they’d be called a racist, neo-nazi, white supremist, pro-KKK violent gang. I don’t feel sorry for these people, they knew in advance Baltimore is a city of black violence and hatred of anything white. Rotten shame that America’s big cities run by blacks have become such rotten, disgusting places to live in or visit.

It’s a shame. The market down the street is so much fun to go and eat the different ethnic foods. The only problem is that all of the people standing around like it’s a crack house scare the heck out of everyone with their drug deals and cat calling! We went to a volleyball tourney for my daughter there about 4 or 5 years ago and it was definitely not a safe feel in downtown Baltimore.

In 1936, times were hard in Little Rock, Arkansas. My 15 year-old grandmother was a prostitute in those days. And birth control was unreliable. So she gave birth to my mother in a home for unwed mothers. Our heritage was unknown, but we had our suspicions, because my grandmother did her best to conceal things. However, after she died, science made our DNA heritage accessible. 23&Me revealed that I am 1/8 black. My mother is 1/4. So if these black kids had swarmed me & I did some serious harm to them, could I have been accused of racial hatred? (I have a strong tendency to vocalize during combat). I have slightly tan skin & green eyes. I tan well. So there it is… the DNA. In the Old South, I would have been arrested for marrying a white woman. All four of my kids are lily white, like their mother. The question: When do we start having one-drop race tests in modern America to determine if people are guilty of racial hatred or race crimes against black people? I ponder these questions because the USA is totally obsessed with race, and black people are the most obsessed of them all. When these black kids attack people, especially white people, they have no idea about the truth, except that they are themselves stupid, vicious & vile.

The all so common thread is young black males are violent. Far moroe violent than any other sub group in terms of percentage of the population. Avoid areas where they gather and if you see them get away fast.

Time for good people to ignore bad laws, and carry some heat: I suggest a “revolver for stupid people” that shoots .45 bullets/.410 shot and slug. A pretty good model is the Taurus Judge.

The Taurus Judge will stop any smart person in their tracks, as the wielder only need point in the general direction of the threat(s) to ensure an effective and often lethal defense. If the threat is stupid, he/she becomes mince meat that the fire department will hose off the street.

Baltimore, and every city in the USA, should belong to good people — not the idiots and thugs that intend random harm. Take your town back, and tell the political hacks and the cops that it’s your town now — carry heat and make the statement.

Ten years ago we used to love going up to Baltimore to the Inner Harbor, to great Restaurants in “Little Italy”, to Ravens games, to Oreoles games, even to Pimlico.. Now we never dare go inside the Baltimore Beltway because the risk of attack by these violent slime is just too high!

In the past few years we also stopped riding Metro into DC after the DC school kids (who ride Metro for free) started attacking white passengers…

I have been all over the world including several cities in the middle east and I have never been anywhere that made me feel as unsafe as Baltimore. It would be safer to sing the national anthem on the streets of Tehran than walk through B-More with an iPhone. Baltimore should be pushed out in the bay and start fresh. I lived there for years and one place I will never go back to. You just can fix 5 generations of drugs, crime, poverty and now lawlessness of beating innocent families.

Stuff like this happens overwhelmingly in states that make it difficult for citizens to carry pistols. Let the young thugs try this somewhere like Georgia, Florida, Alabama, or a bunch of other states, and they’ll get something they didn’t plan on. Communist states like Maryland are merely victim-rich zones for criminals.